Product Compare
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Jun 2011 | Jun 2012 |
| Generation | GeForce 500 | Southern Islands |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Memory Clock | 1002 MHz | 1250 MHz |
| Base Clock | 850 MHz | |
| Boost Clock | 925 MHz | |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 1536MB | 3GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 384bit | 384bit |
| Bandwidth | 192.4GB/s | 240.0GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| SM Count | 16 | |
| Shading Units | 512 | 1792 |
| TMUs | 64 | 112 |
| ROPs | 48 | 32 |
| L1 Cache | 64 KB (per SM) | 16 KB (per CU) |
| L2 Cache | 768 KB | 768 KB |
| Compute Units | 28 | |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 24.70 GPixel/s | 29.60 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 49.41 GTexel/s | 103.6 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 1.581 TFLOPS | 3.315 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 197.6 GFLOPS | 828.8 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | GF110 | Tahiti |
| GPU Variant | GF110-380-A1 | Tahiti PRO2(215-0821282) |
| Architecture | Fermi 2.0 | GCN 1.0 |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 40 nm | 28 nm |
| Transistors | 3 billion | 4.313 billion |
| Die Size | 520 mm² | 352 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 244W | 200W |
| Suggested PSU | 550 W | 550 W |
| Outputs | 2x DVI1x mini-HDMI 1.3a | 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 |
| Power Connectors | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin | 2x 6-pin |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (11_0) | 12 (11_1) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | 1.2 |
| Vulkan | N/A | 1.2 |
| CUDA | 2.0 | |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | 5.1 |